日期：2015-07-20 We have not the honor of your acquaintance, Madame, replied the officer in charge of the squadron; but we are certain you have in your carriage the wretch who yesterday set fire to the principal hotel in Villefranche; then, eyeing me closely: she an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Upon returning to our inn I explained as best I could the history of this unfortunate acquaintance; but whether my companion was not at all satisfied by what I told her, or whether she may perhaps have been exceedingly annoyed by my virtuous perform... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 The opaque ambiguity of these phrases, what Dubois had said to me upon entering, the species of gentleman with whom I had to do, this other girl whose forthcoming appearance had been announced, all this instantly troubled my imagination to a degree... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 And then I rush back to Dubreuil's room; I am not allowed to approach his bedside. But why? I demand and am given the reason: the poor man is expiring and is no longer occupied with anyone save his God. However, he exonerates me, he gives assurance... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Very well, I replied, very well, Madame, but let's spend a moment reasoning in terms of your own principles: what right have you to require that my conscience be as impregnable as yours when since childhood it has not been accustomed to vanquishing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Then the baroness drew me aside. Therese, says she, am I in error? are you not the person I saved from the Conciergerie ten years ago? have you entirely forgotten your Dubois ? Little flattered by this discovery, I however replied to it with politen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Well, Therese, he cries, recommend your soul to God, the instant my delirium supervenes will be that when I plunge you into the eternal abyss awaiting you; ah... ah... Therese, ah... and I feel my head covered with proof of his ecstasy; but, happily... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 ...with Kie we'd really be able to perform wonders. Both he and his wife, they say, immolated victims daily and would have them live twenty-four hours in death's cruelest agonies, and in such a state of suffering that they were constantly on the ver... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Oh, Monsieur, I said to him, to what limits you do carry your villainy! To the ultimate periods, Roland answered; there is not a single extravagance in the world in which I have not indulged, not a crime I have not committed, and not one that my doc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 He seizes my arms, binds them to my side, then he slips a black silken noose about my neck; he holds both ends of the cord and, by tightening, he can strangle and dispatch me to the other world ei quickly or slowly, depending upon his pleasure. This... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Yes, Therese, Monsieur de Corville put in, yes, we insist upon these details, you veil them with a decency that removes all their edge of horror; there remains only what is useful to whoever seeks to perfect his understanding of enigmatic man. You m... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-06-15 Together with this man I was deploring the double misfortune of which he was the victim when he proposed we continue our way. Thanks to your attentions I feel a little better, said Roland; night is approaching, let's get on to a house which should b... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Feeble Phoebus stuff, Therese, Saint-Florent smiled; the character of man's enjoyment is determined by the kind of organs he has received from Nature; a weak individual's, and hence every woman's, incline in the direction of procuring moral ecstasie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 What, Monsieur! the money I gave you... the service I had just rendered you... to be paid for what I did in your behalf by the blackest treachery... that may, you think, be understood, justified ? Why yes, Therese! yes indeed! the proof an explanati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Therese! What are you doing here ? he demands. Oh, Monsieur, punish me, I reply, I am guilty and have nothing to answer you. Unhappily, in my fright I had forgotten to destroy the Countess' letter: he suspects its existence, asks for it, I wish to d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Now, what do I observe upon coolly proceeding to this investigation? A puny creature, always inferior to man, infinitely less attractive than he, less ingenious, less wise, constructed in a disgusting manner entirely opposite to what is capable of p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Superfluous efforts, he cries, this is not what I must have... to the business... the business... however pitiable my state... I can hold back no longer... come, Countess, your arms! He seizes her ferociously, places her as I was placed, arms suspen... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 With what regards this aspect of things, Mademoiselle, you see that they treat me well. Yes, Madame, I replied, and I know it is the wish of Monsieur le Comte that you lack nothing. Oh yes! But as these attentions are motivated only by cruelty, my f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Therese, said the Count, bidding me be seated, I shall not very often repeat such exercises with you, your person is useful for other purposes; but it was of the highest importance I acquaint you with my tastes and the manner in which you will expir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2015-05-20 Then the Count rose to his feet and came up to examine me. While he makes a detailed investigation I can describe him to you: the portrait's singularity merits an instant's attention. Monsieur de Gernande was at that time a man of fifty, almost six... 阅读全文>>